Historic House Blog

  This is the Lampkin Farmhouse in a photo taken in the 1870s. The Farmhouse is one of the oldest surviving structures in Plainfield, New Jersey. It has been documented back to the mid 1700s, but the core of the house is believed to have been built between 1690 and 1720. It is for sale, and it’s [...]

“Quoins: Pronounced “coins,” like the pennies that jangle in your pocket – which is a bit ironic, since these architectural elements are supposed to imply substance, strength, architectural stability, and perhaps even wealth.  Usually found at the corners of multi-story buildings, quoins are stone or wood bands of “rectangles” that look like “blocks,” usually in a wide-short-wide-short pattern.  (Click [...]